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Shoreditch Gallery Reviews - April 2012

For this Canadian artist’s first show at Victoria Miro, Stan Douglas captures the imagination and fantasy of Hollywood glamour in his series of large-scale black and white photographs. These photographs, Douglas states, deconstruct images of the past to find a hidden potential for the present. A game of falsified and hidden identities ensues on the first floor, with characters in masks, or a woman photographed from the knee down as she stands on tiptoes in her heels. A quiet intimacy and subtle humour felt through these images mixes with natural light and airiness of the gallery space to create a space almost too inviting. Yet, his role as the “fictional photojournalist” questions authorship and reality of the photographic image. Upstairs, the theatrical action plays out, as images of gangsters gambling, paparazzi flashes into the backseat of a car, and a game of cricket is in full swing. With this series, Douglas reorders events in the gallery and suggests an open narrative

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POINTY HAT BENEATH THE MAD MOON LIGHT FLOATING ON MY BROOMSTICK WITH A SINISTER BIRD'S EYE VIEW IF YOU PLAY GAMES OR CALL ME NAMES I'LL ...

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Tony Sarg's New York
60 pages
Tony Sarg's New York

¡INTRODUCTION] \VHEN I WAS LIVING IN ENGLAND I PAINTED A SERIES OF PICTURES WHICH WAS published under the tide "Humours of London." They were all birdseye views, such as one sees looking down into a busy street from a window of a ...

Up & down New York
64 pages
Up & down New York

When I was living in England I painted a series of pictures which was published under the title "Humours of London." They were all birdseye views, such as one sees looking down into a busy street from a window of a sky-scraper.

The Gentleman's magazine (London, England) The Gentleman's magazine (London, England)

... of humour, perhaps, from having had his lupines and lentils trampled down by a wild boar in the night. ... own excellence by intently keeping its essential principles always in view, and not straying beyond its legitimate bounds.

The Edinburgh review The Edinburgh review

A directory of London is in some sense a memoir of the Map of London — but only to a limited degree ; for the maps extend ... were views as well as maps ; for the result of Mr. Newton's labours is a pictorial map, a bird's-eye view, ...

DICKENS'S DICTIONARY OF THE THAMES DICKENS'S DICTIONARY OF THE THAMES

His Birdseye View of London before the Fire, a work of the year 1647, measures when put together over eight feet in length ... Bedford Arms,' Covent Garden, in the same good humour we left it to set out on this very pleasant expedition.

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Everything Everything – review
Everything Everything – review Story fragments flicker in and out of view; more easily discerned is Higgs's absurdist and often dark sense of humour. "MY KZ, UR BF" appears to centre on a seducer assessing the romantic state of play in the aftermath of an aerial bombing raid: "Are